Procurement Bids in North Carolina

There are 1,770 open procurement opportunities in North Carolina from 13 state, county, city, school, hospital, and university agencies as of July 14, 2026. 7 of them close within the next seven days.

The top agencies posting bids in North Carolina right now are North Carolina Electronic Vendor Portal, Federal Government, City of Winston-Salem, UNC Chapel Hill, City of Durham. Each maintains its own vendor portal and posting schedule.

Register on NC eProcurement (https://eprocurement.nc.gov/) for state-level opportunities. Register on NC eProcurement to bid on state contracts. Vendor link to NCGEAR for some agencies. For federal contracts, register on SAM.gov (free; assigns a UEI). For local agencies, registration is on the platform they use — Bonfire, PlanetBids, BidNet Direct, DemandStar — typically one registration per platform covers all agencies using it.

The most-active industries in North Carolina government procurement right now are Construction, Facilities & Maintenance, Professional Services. Browse each by industry to see current opportunities filtered to North Carolina.

North Carolina operates the following preference and set-aside programs: North Carolina Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) certification. Each has its own certification process; check the state procurement office for eligibility details.

North Carolina procurement is governed by North Carolina General Statutes Chapter 143 Article 3. This includes bid solicitation, contract award, and vendor protest procedures. The state procurement office publishes implementing regulations and manuals.

Save a search on ProcureTap filtered to North Carolina to receive email alerts when new bids match your criteria. You can also subscribe to the state's official portal notifications. Larger agencies (state DOT, department of general services) publish quarterly forecasts of upcoming solicitations.

Every six hours. ProcureTap re-scrapes the North Carolina state procurement portal plus every county, city, school district, hospital, and university procurement system in the state on a six-hour cadence, so new postings appear here within hours of being published.

North Carolina generally does not restrict bidding to in-state vendors, but many agencies offer local-preference points or ties-broken-in-favor-of-local scoring, and some contracts under specific dollar thresholds may be limited to registered North Carolina vendors or certified North Carolina small businesses. Read each solicitation's evaluation criteria carefully.

Register on NC eProcurement (eprocurement.nc.gov) — the Commonwealth's SAP Ariba-based procurement platform. Registration is free and covers state executive-agency solicitations. HUB (Historically Underutilized Business) certification is through the Office for Historically Underutilized Businesses at nc-hub.com. NCDOT construction bidders need Prequalification of Bidders certification. Local governments and school districts require separate registrations on their own platforms (BidSync, Bonfire, etc.).

The Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) program certifies minority-, women-, disabled-, or disadvantaged-owned businesses for participation goals on state-issued contracts. Certification is through the Office for Historically Underutilized Businesses (nc-hub.com). HUB goals apply to most state contracts, and prime contractors must submit HUB Utilization Plans. Federal DBE certification for NCDOT federal-aid work runs separately through the NCDOT DBE program under the Unified Certification Program.

The North Carolina Department of Transportation publishes monthly lettings through the NCDOT eBid system. Bidders must complete Prequalification of Bidders certification before bidding construction. Bids are sealed unit-price on a bill of quantities; award goes to the lowest responsive responsible pre-qualified bidder. Federal-aid projects carry Davis-Bacon wages, Buy America iron/steel (49 CFR 661), and DBE subcontracting goals typically 10–13%. State-funded projects follow North Carolina prevailing-wage rules.

STI is North Carolina's data-driven prioritization framework for transportation project selection, established by the Strategic Transportation Investments Act of 2013. NCDOT scores projects on a quantitative formula and publishes a 10-year State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) listing every prioritized project with target letting dates. Vendors can anticipate upcoming NCDOT solicitations by reviewing the current STIP at ncdot.gov.

The University of North Carolina System — 17 campuses including UNC-Chapel Hill, NC State, UNC Charlotte, ECU, plus UNC Health — operates under its own procurement rules through the UNC Board of Governors and each campus's procurement office. Most campuses use Jaggaer or SciQuest. HUB participation goals still apply. UNC Health procurement runs separately with GPO relationships (Vizient, Premier) and dedicated procurement leadership.

North Carolina has 115 school districts (called Local Education Agencies or LEAs). Each district issues RFPs independently for food services, transportation, construction, IT, curriculum, and consulting. Charlotte-Mecklenburg, Wake County, Guilford County, and Cumberland County are the largest. Common platforms include Bonfire, PlanetBids, and BidSync. School construction projects follow G.S. Chapter 115C rules including prevailing wage on projects over specified thresholds.

ProcureTap re-scrapes NC eProcurement, NCDOT eBid, UNC System campuses, City of Charlotte, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, Wake County, City of Raleigh, and every North Carolina county, city, school district, hospital, and university procurement system on a 6-hour cadence. New bids appear within hours of publication.